Sentences with phrase «of pincer movements»

Use of pincer movements, flanking and other battlefield basics rarely seem to make a difference often leading me to just throwing everything at the enemy until they die.

In Wright's view, the way to get at the historical Jesus is by means of a pincer movement — forward from the picture of early Judaism and backward from the portrait in the Gospels.

There's a sort of pincer movement from the parents who want their kids to go to Harvard and the policymakers who want to demonstrate that early childhood education has good bang for the buck.

Not exact matches

To move from isolated examples toward a fully generative economy, we may need a global movement of citizens, investors, and businesses, both profit and nonprofit, working together to create a pincer strategy — one arm aimed at reforming existing large companies, another aimed at promoting generative alternatives.

They had expected this pincer movement but it is the scale of the battering that astonished them.

The government is caught in a four - way pincer movement on the customs union, each part of which gains confidence from the resilience of the others.

Opposition finds Labour trapped in a vicious pincer movement between the Tory attack and the bluster of a motley crew of small parties, parliament being the focus of gladiatorial battles.

He was caught in a pincer movement between the new leader of the Tory Party, Boris Johnson, who had accused Ed Miliband of complete surrender to Brussels and the Green and Justice Party which said that Europe had become too enslaved to monetary orthodoxy and austerity to be supportable.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

One isolated vertical paint stroke, only one and half inch wide but the same height as Vir, The Wild is the opposite of all - over painting as espoused by one of Newman's champions, Clement Greenberg: it is sculptural, it is even theatrical, but the two works create a pincer movement that assert or challenge the viewer's sense of proportion, dimensionality, and measure just as Newman wished.

And learn how to «get out of the way» long enough to come through the backdoor in a surprise pincer movement.